"To forget one's purpose is the commonest..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”
“But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.”
More on Purpose
“Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing.”
“May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.”
“Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.”